As she did in The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin here embarks on a new project to make home a happier place. It began one Sunday afternoon as she unloaded the dishwasher and felt a wave of homesickness. But why? She was standing in her own kitchen. Rubin felt homesick, she realized, with love for home itself, that most important element of a happy life. She wanted a home that both calmed and energized her—a place that, by making her feel safe, would free her to take risks—while she also wanted to better appreciate how much happiness was there already. Month by month, through exercises inspired by her general theories of happiness, Rubin tackles themes like possessions, marriage, time, and parenthood, constructing experiments with concrete, manageable resolutions—and this time, she coaxes her family to try some resolutions as well.